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Final state of the parties: *Labour 75, up 32. Councillors: 2158, up 823*Conservative 42, down 12. Councillors: 1005, down 405*Liberal Democrat 6, down 1. Councillors 431, down 336*SNP 2, up 2. Councillors: 424, up 57*Other parties 5, down 2. Councillors 642, down 149*No overall control 50, down 18*Ballot box mistake delays London mayor resultNerves fray as Ken narrows gap on Boris*Cameron and Clegg say sorry to councillors*Labour take Birmingham*Conservatives lose control of 12 councils*Lib Dem councillors fall below 3,000 for the first time*Nottingham, Manchester, Bradford, Coventry vote against elected mayor*Bristol votes for elected mayor*Respect unseat Labour council leader in Bradford

Sadie Gray

May 4 2012, 10:05am, The Times

Counting takes place in SwindonTim Ireland/PA

23.58 BST: Finally, the official announcement: Boris Johnson has been re-elected as Mayor of London. Including second preference votes, he polled 1,054,811 votes, or 51.53 per cent, against Ken Livingstone’s 992,273, or 48.47 per cent.

22.52 BST: Another one from Paul Waugh: “Rumour that Boris reliant on hanging chads is untrue. As for him being reliant on hanging chavs...”

22.51 BST: London Elects has released a statement on the delays. It appears that two batches of ballot papers from Brent & Harrow were sent off to storage before the papers which needed to be read manually had been dealt with. Those two batches are being re-processed.

Here is the statement: “We have results in from 13 of the 14 constituencies in the Mayor of London…